Happy 5th Birthday!

G-ram celebrated his 5th birthday earlier this month, so I thought I would share just a few of the pictures we took. On the actual day of his birthday, we celebrated with just those of us in his immediate family. Our family birthday tradition has been that the birthday person gets to choose where to go for dinner and then we hit up an ice cream shop for dessert. G-ram chose to go to a local pizzeria for his current favorite pizza (pepperoni and canadian bacon). Afterwards we went to Cold Stone Creamery for ice cream. Prior to all of this though was the opening of the presents, of course! G-ram could hardly wait for A-Rand to get home so that he could open his gifts. His present from mommy, daddy, and C-man was a drum set. Here he is trying them out:


His birthday party was several days later, as his birthday fell mid-week this year. He really wanted a stop light cake (as he's been fascinated with stop lights for several months now) and from that his party evolved into a road construction theme. His stop light cake looked (and tasted) great. We had a dump truck pinata, and cone cups for favors, and cone party hats. They were so cute! This party theme was particularly funny (at least to me!) because G-rams good friends are mostly girls! So other than G-ram and C-man, the (kid) party guests were all girls, but at this age, the kids don't really seem to care if it's catered more to one gender than the other. They like to play with all kinds of toys, which is especially nice for playdates.

Here is a picture of G-ram getting some assistance from his grandpa opening his juice just before we sang "Happy Birthday" and cut his cake.